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Collection  de 
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L'Institut  a  microfilm^  le  meilleur  exemplaire 
qu'il  lui  a  6t6  possible  de  se  procurer.  Les  details 
de  cet  exemplaire  qui  sont  peut-dtre  uniques  du 
point  de  vue  bibliographique,  qui  peuvent  modifier 
une  image  reproduite,  ou  qui  peuvent  exiger  une 
modification  dans  la  mdthode  normale  de  filmage 
sont  indiquds  ci-dessous. 


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Transparence 


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Planches  et/ou  illustrations  en  couieur 

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along  interior  margin/ 

La  reliure  serr6e  peut  causer  de  I'ombre  ou  de  la 
distortion  le  long  de  la  marge  int^rieure 

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appear  within  the  text.  Whenever  possible,  these 
have  been  omitted  from  filming/ 
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lors  d'une  restauration  apparaissent  dans  le  texte, 
mais.  lorsque  cela  6tait  possible,  ces  pages  n'ont 
pas  6t6  filmdes. 


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slips,  tissues,  etc.,  have  been  refilmed  to 
ensure  the  best  possible  image/ 
Les  pages  totalement  ou  partiellement 
obscurcies  par  un  feuillet  d'errata,  une  pelure, 
etc.,  ont  6t6  filmdes  d  nouveau  de  fapon  d 
obtenir  la  meilleure  image  possible. 


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to  the  generosity  of: 

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The  images  appearing  here  are  the  best  quality 
possible  considering  the  condition  and  legibility 
of  the  original  copy  and  in  keeping  with  the 
filming  contract  specifications. 


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beginning  with  the  front  cover  and  ending  on 
the  last  page  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  impres- 
sion, or  the  back  cover  when  appropriate.  All 
other  original  copies  are  filmed  beginning  on  the 
first  page  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  impres- 
sion, and  ending  on  the  last  page  with  a  printed 
or  illustrated  impression. 


L'exemplaire  film6  fut  reproduit  grdce  A  la 
g6n6rosit6  de: 

Bibliothdque  nationals  du  Canada 


Les  images  suivantes  ont  6t6  reproduites  avec  le 
plus  grand  soin,  compte  tenu  de  la  condition  et 
de  la  nettetA  de  l'exemplaire  filmd,  et  en 
conformity  avec  les  conditions  du  contrat  de 
filmage. 

Les  exemplaires  originaux  dont  la  couverture  en 
papier  est  imprimie  sont  filmds  en  commenpant 
par  le  premier  plat  et  en  terminant  soit  par  la 
dernidre  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'impression  ou  d'illustration,  soit  par  le  second 
plat,  selon  le  cas.  Tous  les  autres  exemplaires 
originaux  sont  film^s  en  commandant  par  la 
premidre  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'impression  ou  d'illustration  et  en  terminant  par 
la  dernidre  page  qui  comporte  une  telle 
empreinte. 


The  last  recorded  frame  on  each  microfiche 
shall  contain  the  symbol  — »■  (meaning  "CON- 
TINUED"), or  the  symbol  V  (meaning  "END  "). 
whichever  applies. 

Maps,  plates,  charts,  etc.,  may  be  filmed  at 
different  reduction  ratios.  Those  too  large  to  be 
entirely  included  in  one  exposure  are  filmed 
beginning  in  the  upper  left  hand  corner,  left  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  as  many  frames  as 
required.  The  following  diagrams  illustrate  the 
method: 


Un  des  symboles  suivants  apparaitra  sur  la 
dernidre  image  de  cheque  microfiche,  selon  le 
cas:  le  symbole  — »-  signifie  "A  SUIVRE",  le 
symbole  V  signifie  "FIN". 

Les  cartes,  planches,  tableaux,  etc.,  peuvent  dtre 
film6s  A  des  taux  de  reduction  diffdrents. 
Lorsque  le  document  est  trop  grand  pour  dtre 
reproduit  en  un  seul  clichd,  il  est  filmd  d  partir 
de  Tangle  sup6rieur  gauche,  de  gauche  d  droite, 
et  de  haut  en  bas,  en  prenant  le  nombre 
d'images  n^cessaire.  Les  diagrammes  suivants 
illustront  la  mdthode. 


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ROME 


AND 


EDUCATION. 


BY 


PASTOR  CHINIQUY, 


Proceeds  of  Sale   to   be   devoted  to   Pastor  Chiniquy's 
Mission  to  Roman  Cat/io/ics  in  America. 


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ROME  AND   EDUCATION. 


PASTOJl  CIIINIQIY  DELIVEIIED  THIS  LKCTUHE  AT  MANCIIESTEH, 

N.  II..  DECEMHEU  2,  1880. 


My  CnKisTiAN  Fkiendh.  — I  liavc  never 
felt  the  responsibility  of  my  position  more 
than  this  evening.  Tiie  sut>ject  on  which  I 
am  requested  to  spcal<  is  of  vital  import- 
an(;e:  "Education  in  tlie  (-"hurcii  of  Home 
Compared  with  Education  Among  Protest- 
ants," or  "Wliy  do  the  Priests  of  Home 
Mate  our  Schwils?"  This  suhject  is  vjwt 
as  the  great  ocean  which  waslies  your 
shf)re8;  it  is  more  profound  than  tiie  miglity 
Pacific;  it  is  limitless  in  its  extent.  My 
regret  in  that  it  is  impossible  to  (Jo  justice 
to  it  in  a  single  lecture.  However,  relying 
on  the  help  of  our  great  and  merciful  (»<Mi. 
wliose  holy  name  lias  just  l)cen  invoked 
through  our  Saviour,  Jesus  Christ,  and  re- 
meml)ering  that  I  am  not  among  strangers 
who  will  judge  me  with  severity,  but  among 
brethren  on  the  kind  feelings  of  whom  I  can 
rely,  1  will  do  all  I  can  to  throw  some  new 
light  on  that  momentous  quest  ion  which,  to- 
day more  than  ever,  does  cwcupy  the  minds 
of  the  civilized  world. 

The  word  EorcATios  is  a  beautiful  word. 
It  comes  from  the  Latin  edurare,  which 
means  to  raise  up,  to  take  from  the  lowest 
degrees  to  the  highest  spheres  of  knowledge. 
The  object  of  education  is.  then,  to  feed, 
expand,  raise,  enlighten,  and  strengthen  the 
intelligence. 

You  hear  the  Komati  Catholic  priests 
making  use  of  that  beautiful  word  edueatio?i 
as  often,  if  not  more  often  than  the  Prot- 
estant. But  that  word  "education"  has  a 
very  difTerent  meaning  among  the  followers 
of  tlie  Pope,  than  among  the  disciples  of 
the  Gospel.  And  that  diflFerence.  which 
you  Protestants  ignore,  is  the  cause  of  the 
strange  blunders  you  make  every  time  you 
ti'y  to  legislate  on  that  question,  her.'',  as 
well  as  in  Enjijlnnd  or  in  Canada. 

The  meaning  of  the  word  education 
among  you  Protestants  is  as  far  from  the 
meaning  of  that  same  word  among  Roman 
Catholics  as  the  southern  pole  is  fnmi  the 
northern  one.      When  a  Protestant  speaks 


of  education,  that  word  is  used  and  iinder- 
st«MMl  in  its  true  sense.  Wlien  you  send 
your  little  boy  to  a  Protestant  school,  you 
honestly  desire  that  he  should  be  reared 
up  in  the  spheres  of  knowledge  as  mticti 
as  his  intelligence  will  allow  it.  When 
that  little  boy  is  going  to  school,  he  s(!on 
feels  that  he  has  been  raised  up  to  some 
extent,  and  he  experiences  a  sincere  joy.  a 
noble  pride,  for  this  new,  though  at  first  very 
nuxlest  raising;  but  he  naturally  under- 
stands that  this  new  and  modest  upheaval 
is  only  a  stone  to  step  oii.  and  raise  himself 
to  a  higher  degree  of  knowledge,  and  he 
quickly  makes  that  .second  step  with  an  un- 
speakable pleasure.  When  tlus  son  ot  a 
Protestant  has  ac(|uired  a  little  knowledge. 
he  wants  to  aecpiire  more.  When  he  has 
learned  what  t/iin  means,  he  wants  to  know 
what  tfint  means  also.  Like  the  young 
eagle,  he  trims  his  wings  for  a  higher  Hight, 
and  turns  his  head  upward  to  go  farther 
up  in  the  atmosphere  of  knowledge;.  A 
noble  and  mysterious  ambition  has  suddenly 
seized  his  young  soul.  Then  Ik;  begins  to 
feel  something  of  that  unquenchable  thirst 
for  knowledge,  which  God  himself  has  put 
in  the  breast  of  every  child  of  Adam,  » 
thirst  of  knowledge,  however,  which  will 
never  be  perfectly  realized  except  in  heaven. 
When  (4od  created  man  in  His  own  image. 
He  endowed  him  with  an  intelligetice  aiul 
moral  faculties  worthy  of  the  high,  I  was 
going  to  .say  the  divine,  dignity  of  His  own 
beloved  children.  He  Himself  put  in  us 
aspirations  and  instincts  by  which  we  were 
to  be  constantly  longing  after  the  oceans  of 
light,  truth,  and  knowledge,  whose  waves 
wash  His  eternal  throne.  It  is  that  thirst 
after  more  knowledge,  that  Constant  lonu,- 
ing  after  more  light  which  constitutes  liie 
diuerence  between  man  and  brute.  Man 
has  received  from  Gtxi  an  intelligence 
which,  though  clouded  now,  by  sin,  is  to 
him  what  the  helm  is  to  the  noble  ship 
which  crosses   your  boundless  ocean ;   he 


hnfl  a  rDnHcionrr,  an  iniinortal  m\\\  which 
buKlH  liiin  to  ()()(I,  and  lie  tV'clH  it.  lliH 
(IcHlinicH  arc  ftiorioiiH.  liicy  arc  iiic.niiincn- 
Hiiral>ic.  tiicy  arc  intinitc,  and  lie  knoWH  it. 
Tlioiijiii  ii  dethroned  kin^,  lie  fccLsthat  he  iH 
Hliil  a  kinu;.  The  <>,0()0  years  wiiicii  have 
im'<Hcd  over  him  liavc  not  yet  elTaccd  the 
kingly  title  wliicli  (tod  lliniHclf  wrote  on 
his  forclicad  wlicn  lie  told  him  '  .Mnltijily, 
and  repleiiish  the  earth,  and  .subdue  it." 
((Jen.,  I  'iH.j  With  that  jrloriouH.  that 
divine  misHioii  of  suhduiiig  the  air  and 
till'  light,  the  wind  and  the  waves,  tlic 
Hcas  a)id  the  earth,  the  roaring  thunder  and 
the  ilashing  lightning,  conHtaiilly  het'ore  his 
cy.s.  man  marches  to  the  eon(|Uest  of  the 
v,orlii.  with  the  calm  certitude  of  his  power, 
ind  the  gloriouH  aspirations  of  his  royal 
dignity. 

The  otiject  of  education,  then,  is  to  en- 
ahh;  man  to  fulfill  that  kingly  miftsiun  of 
ruling,  Hubduing  the  world,  under  the  eyes 
of  his  Oreator.  Let  us  remember  that  it 
is  not  from  himself,  nor  from  any  angel,  but 
it  is  from  God  Himself  that  inan  has  re- 
ceived that  sublime  mi.ssion.  Ye.s,  it  is  God 
himself  who  has  im|)lanted  in  the  bosom 
of  liumanity  the  knowledge  and  aspirations 
of  those  .splendid  destinies  which  vaw  be 
attained  only  by  ''Education." 

What  a  glorious'imi)ul8e  is  tliis  that  .seizes 
hold  of  the  newly  awakened  mind,  and  leads 
the  youn.?  intelligence  to  rise  higher  and 
pierce  the  clouds  that  hide  from  his  gaze, 
the  splendors  of  knowledge  that  lies  con- 
ceale(l  beyond  the  gloom  of  this  nether 
sphere?  That  impulse  is  a  noble  ambition  : 
it  is  that  part  of  humanity  that  assimilates 
itself  to  the  likeness  of  the  great  (Creator: 
that  impulse  which  education  has  for  its 
mission  to  direct  in  its  onward  and  upward 
march,  is  one  of  the  mo.st  preciosis  gifts  of 
God  to  man.  Once  more,  the  glorious  mis- 
sion of  education  is  to  foster  these  thirst  ings 
after  knowledge  and  lead  man  to  accomplish 
his  high  destiny. 

It  ought  to  lie  a  duty  with  both  Roman 
Catholics  and  Protestants  to  as.sist  the  pui)il 
in  his  tlight  toward  the  regions  of  science 
and  learning.  But  is  it  so?  No.  When 
you,  Protestants,  sfiiid  your  children  to 
school,  you  put  no  fetters  to  their  intelli- 
gence ;  they  rise  with  Huttering  wings  day 
after  day.  Though  their  thgiit,  at  first,  is 
slow  and  timid,  how  they  feel  happy  at  every 
new  a.sp(?ct  of  their  intellectual  horizon ! 
How  their  hearts  beat  with  an  unspeakable 
joy,  when  they  begin  to  hear  voices  of  ap- 
plause and  encouragement  fron»  every  .side 
saying  to  them;  "higher,  higher,  higher  I" 
when  they  shake  their  young  wings  to  take 
a  still  higher  fiight.  who  can  ex|)ress  their 
joy,  when  they  distinctly  hear  again  the 
voices  of    a  beloved    mother,   of    a    dear 


father,  (>>  :;  ''•;neral)Ie  pastor,  cheering  them 
and  saying:  "Well  vlone.'  higher  yet  my 
child,  higher:" 

liaising  themselves  with  more  confidence 
on  their  wings,  they,  then,  .soar  still  higher, 
in  the  midst  of  the  unanimous  concert  of 
the  voices  of  their  whole  country  encourag- 
ing them  to  the  highest  fiight.  it  is  then 
that  the  young  man  feels  liis  intellectual 
strength  tenlold  multiplied.  He  lifts  liim.self 
on  his  eagle  wings,  with  a  renewed  confi- 
dence and  |)iiwer,  and  .soars  up  still  higher 
with  his  heart  heating  with  a  noble  and 
holy  joy.  For  from  tlie  south  and  north, 
from  the  east  and  the  west  the  echoes  bring 
to  his  ears  the  voices  of  the  aiimiring  nnil- 
titudes-  "Uise  higher,  Iiigher  yet!" 

He  has,  now.  reached  what  he  thought, 
at  first,  to  lie  the  highest  regions  of  thought 
and  knowledge;  but  he  hears  again  the  same 
stimulating  «'ries  from  below,  encouraging 
him  to  a  still  higher  fiight  toward  the  loftiest 
dominion  to  knowhnlge  and  philoso])hy,  till 
he  enters  the  regions  where  lies  the  source 
of  all  truth,  and  ligiit  and  life.  For  he  has 
also  heard  the  voic(!  of  his  God  speaking 
through  His  Son  .lesus  (Jjiirst,  crying: 
"Come  unto  me!  Fear  not  I  ('ome  unto 
me  I  I  am  the  light,  the  way  I  (^ome  to 
tliis  higher  region  wliere  the  Father,  with 
till'  Son,  and  the  Spirit  reign  in  endless 
light!" 

Thus,  my  friends,  does  the  Protestant 
scholar,  making  use  of  his  intelligence  as 
the  eagle  of  his  wing,  go  on  from  weakness 
unto  strength,  from  tlie  timid  fiutter,  to  the 
bold,  (tonrident  fiight,  from  one  degree  to 
another,  still  higher ;  from  one  region  of 
knowledge  to  another  still  higher,  till  he 
loses  himself  in  that  ocean  of  light  and  truth 
and  life  which  is  God. 

In  the  Protestant  schools  no  fetters  are 
put  on  the  young  eagle's  wings,  there  is 
nothing  to  stop  him  in  his  progress,  or  par- 
alyse his  movements  and  upward  llights.  It 
is  the  contrary— he  receives  every  kind  of 
encouragement  in  his  fiight. 

Thus  it  is  that  the  only  truly s^/'m^  nations 
in  the  world  are  l^rotestants.  Thus  it  is 
the  truly  potrerjul  nations  in  the  world  are 
Protestants!  Thus  it  is  that  the  only  jree 
nations  in  the  world  are  Protestants!  The 
Protestant  nations  are  the  only  ones  that 
acquit  them.selves  like  nien  in  the  arena  of 
this  world  :  Protestant  nations  only,  march 
as  giants  at  the  head  of  the  civilized  world. 
Everywhere  they  are  the  advanced  guard  in 
the  ranks  of  progres.s,  science,  and  liberty; 
leaving  far  behind  the  unfortunate  nations 
whose  hands  and  feet  are  tied  by  the  igno- 
minious iron  chains  of  Popery. 

After  wi'  have  seen  the  Protestant 
scholar  raising  himself,  on  his  eagle  wings, 
to    the     highest    spheres    of    intelligence. 


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liiip|>in(>88,  and  liplit,  and  innrcliiu^  uniin- 
pi-dfd  towvrd  IiIh  Hplciidid  dcHtinic?,  let  lis 
turn  our  cyi'H  toward  the  Uonian  Catliolif 
student,  and  let  us  coiiHidcr  and  pity  liini  in 
tlu*  Hupriinc  dc^nidation  to  whirl)  lie  is  huI)- 
jectt'd. 

Tiiat  younjif  ]{c)n)an  Catiiolio  sciiolar  \h 
liorii  with  the  saini'  brij^ht  intcliifjciirc  as 
tlie  I'rolfHtant  one;  h(!  is  endowed  Ity  his 
Creator  witliliie  same  powers  of  mind  as  liis 
I'rotesiant  neii,dihor;  he  has  tlie  same  im- 
puises.  th(!  same  noble  aspirations,  implanted 
by  tlie  hand  of  (iod,  in  his  breast.  He 
is  sent  to  school,  apparently,  like  the  Prot- 
estant boy.  to  receive  what  is  called 
•'E<iucali()ii."  lie,  at  first  understands 
that  word  in  its  true  sense,  he  noes  lo 
school  witli  the  hope  of  beiiif?  rained,  ele- 
vated as  high  as  his  intelligence  and  his 
personal  eflorts  will  allow.  His  heart  beats 
with  joy,  when  at  (»nee,  the  first  rays  of 
light  and  knowledge  comes  to  him ;  he  feels 
a  lioly,  a  noble  pride  at  every  lunv  stej)  he 
makes  in  his  upward  progress;  he  longs  to 
learn  more,  he  wants  to  raise  higher: — lie, 
also,  takes  up  his  wings,  like  the  young 
eagle,  and  soars  up  higher. 

Hut,  here  begin  the  disappointments  and 
trilmlations  of  the  Roman  ("atholic  student : 
for  he  Is  allowed  to  raise  himself,  yes, — but 
when  he  has  raised  himself  high  enough  to 
lie  on  a  level  with  the  liig  toes  of  the  pope, 
he  hears  piercing,  angry,  threatening  cries 
coming  from  every  side:  —  "Stop!  stop! 
Do  not  raise  yourself  higher  than  the  toes 
of  the  holy  pope!  .  .  .  Kiss  those  holy 
toes,  .  .  and  stop  yrmr  upward  flight ! 
Remember  that  the  pop(!  is  the  only  source 
of  science,  knowledge  and  truth  I  .  .  .  . 
The  knowledge  of  the  I\)pe  is  the  ultimate 
liiidt  of  learning  and  light  to  which  hu- 
manity can  attain.  .  .  .  You  are  not 
allowed  to  know  and  belit've  what  his 
holiness  does  not  know  and  believe.  Stop! 
—Stop !  Do  not  go  an  Inch  higher  than  the 
intellectual  horizon  of  the  supreme  Pontiff 
of  Rome,  in  whom  only  is  the  plenitude  of 
the  true  science  which  will  save  the  world." 

Some    will    perhaps    answer    me   here:  \ 
"Has    not    Rome   produced   great  men  in 
every  department   of  science?"     I   answer 
yes.     Rome  can  show  us  a  long  list  of  names 
which  shine  among  the  lirightest  lights  of 
the  firmament  of  science  and  ithilosophy. 
She  can  show  us  her  C'operniccs.  her  (talileos, 
her  Paschals,  her  Rossuets,  her  Lanicpnis, 
etc..  etc.     But  it  is  at  their  risk  and  peril  j 
that  those  giants  of  intelligence  have  raised  ; 
themselves  into  the  high<>st  regions  of  phi- 1 
losophy  and  .science,     it  is  in  spite  of  Rome  i 
that  those  eagles  have  soared  up  above  the 
damp  and  obscure  horizon  where  the  pope 
offers   his  big  toes  to  be  kissed  and  wor- ' 
shipped  as  the  nee  plus  ultra  of  human  i 


'  intelligenre;  and  tlwy  have  invariably  been 
punisiied  for  their  temeritv. 

On  the  l>:Jd  of  .liine.  lVi<;8,  (;aHil*>o  was 
oliliged  to  fall  on  liis  knees  in  order  to  escape 
the  cruel  death  to  wiiicli  he  was  to  Ite  con- 
deiiined  by  the  order  of  the  pope;  and  he 
signed  with  his  own  hand  the  following  re- 
tractation:  "I  abjure,  curse,  anil  (h'le.st 
the  error  and  heresy  of  the  motion  of  the 
earth,"  etc.,  etc. 

That  learned  man  had  to  (h'grade  himself 
liy  swearing  a  most  egregi(iu.s  lie,  namely, 
that  he  would  never  say  any  more  that  the 
earth  moved  around  the  sun.  Thus  it  is 
that  the  wings  of  that  giant  eagle  of  Rome 
were  clipped  by  the  scisiors  of  the  pope. 
That  mighty  intelligence  was  bruised,  fet- 
tered, and,  as  much  as  it  was  possible  to  the 
("hiireh  of  Home,  degraded,  silenced,  and 
killed.  Hut  (iod  would  not  allow  that  such 
a  giant  intellect  should  be  entin^ly  strangled 
by  the  bloody  hands  of  that  iinplacal)le 
enemy  of  light  and  truth-  the  pope.  Siiltl- 
cient  strength  and  life  had  remaiiuul  in 
(Jallileo  to  enable  him  to  say,  when  rising 
up.  "This  will  not  prevent  tlieearih  from 
moving!" 

The  infallilile  decree  of  the  infallible  pope, 
Urban  VIIl,  agaiii.st  the  motion  of  the  earth, 
is  signed  by  the  Cardinals  Felia,  (luido, 
Desiderio,  Antonio,  Hellingero,  and  Fabri- 
cicio.  It  says,  "In  the  name  and  by  the 
authority  of  .le.sus  Christ,  the  iileiiitude  of 
which  resi(U!s  in  His  vicar,  tiie  pope,  that 
the  proi>osition  that  the  earth  is  not  the 
center  of  the  world,  and  that  it  moves  with 
a  diurnal  motion  is  absurd,  philosophically 
false,  and  erroneous  in  faith." 

What  a  glorious  thing  for  the  Pope  of 
Rome  to  lie  infidlibli! !  He  infallibly 
knows  that  the  earth  does  not  move  around 
the  sun!  And  what  a  bk'S.sed  thing  for  the 
lioman  Catholics  to  be  governed  and  taught 
by  such  an  infdilihlf  being!  In  con.se- 
(pieiKC  of  that  infallible  decree,  you  will 
admire  the  following  act  of  humlile  sub- 
mission of  two  celebrated  Jesuit  astronomers, 
Lesiieur  and  .laccpiier:  "Newton  a-ssunies 
in  his  third  book  the  hypothesis  of  Ihe  earth 
moving  aroimd  the  sun.  The  projiosition 
of  that  author  could  not  b<;  explained,  ex- 
C('i>l  through  the  same  hypothesis:  we  have, 
therefore,  been  forced  to  act  a  character  not 
our  own.  Hut  ire  ikclare  our  entire  xuhmia- 
nion  to  the  derrern  of  the  supreme,  I'ontijfa 
of  Jiome,  (Ufdinxt  the  motion  of  the  enrth.''' — 
i\eirf,(mi\t   /'rincipia,  vol.  ill,  p.  4~i(). 

xS'ow.  please  tell  me  if  the  world  has 
ever  witnessed  any  degredation  like  that  of 
Roman  Catholics?  I  do  not  speak  of  the 
ignorant  and  unlearned,  but  I  speak  of 
the  learned— the  intelligent  ones.  There, 
you  see  Galileo  condemned  to  gaol  because 
he  liad  proved  that  the  earth  moved  anniud 


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ilic  HUH,  1111(1  to  iiviiid  tlic  cnicl  ilnitli  (»ti  the 
rack  oi'  till-  IkiI}  IiKiuiHition.  ir  he  dncM  not 
rclnu'l,  lie  fjillH  (111  Ills  kmcM.  niid  swciiis 
rliat  lie  will  iH'Vcr  Itilicvc  it  iti  tlic  vrrv 
iniiiiictif  lliat  lie  hclicvcs  it  :  He  jiMmiscH. 
uinU-r  a  hoIcimii  oalli.  tiiat  lie  will  never  Hay 
it  liny  more,  wlii'ii  lie  is  iletermiiied  In  |»r<»- 
rliiiin  it  anaiii.  Ilie  very  first  (ipjKiitiiniiy  I 
And  here  yoii  see  two  oilier  learned  Jesiiiis. 
wl'ii  liiive  wrilli'ii  a  very  a'de  work  lo  prove 
that  the  eaitli  moves  around  the  sun:  iiiil. 
trenhiini;  at  the  tiiunders  of  llie  \atiean, 
which  are  roariti!;  on  their  heads,  and 
threaten  to  kil'  them,  they  say  that  they  suit- 
mil  to  t)ie  decrees  of  the  l'n|)(siit  i{onie, 
auaiiiHt  the  motion  of  Ihe  eailli  .  tlicy  lell  a 
most  contemptilileand  ridiculous  lie  to  .save 
llieiiiHelveH  from  the  implaciilile  'vralh  of 
that  j;nat  liirht  extiiiL'uisher  whose  llir;ine  \n 
in  Ihe  city  of  the  seven  hills. 

Iyamenai.<'.  ii  iioinaii  ('athdlic  priest,  who 
liv((l  in  this  very  century,  was  one  ot  tlie 
most  profound  pIiiloso|)heis.  and  elocpient 
writers,  winch  Fraiuc  has  ever  had.  Hut 
I  jimenias  was  pulilicly  excoiniminiciled,  for 
liaviiifr  raised  himself  hiirh  eiiouiili  in  the 
rei^ionsof  <tospel  liLdil  losi'c  that  ••lilierty  of 
conscience"  was  one  of  the  i^nat  piivilcires 
which  Christ  has  liroujfht  from  heaven  for 
all  th(>  nations,  ami  which  lie  has  .sealed 
with  JlijJilood:  No  man  has  ever  raised 
himself  hijjher  in  th»'  regions  of  lliouirht 
and  philcHoitliy  than  I'aschal  :  i)iit  Ihe  winirs 
of  Ihaf  tjiani  ea^le  wereclippid  by  the  pope. 
I'aschal  was  an  outcast  in  Ihe  Church  of 
HouK!.  lie  lived  and  died  an  excommuni- 
cated ntan.  Uosaiict  is  the  most  elo(iucnt 
«trat(a'  which  iioine  has  irivci'  to  the  world. 
Hut  Veuillol.  the  editor  of  the  rniirr.s  {\\w 
oUicial  Journal  of  the  Komaii  ( 'atliolic  clcrnry 
of  France),  assures  us  that  Bossuet  was  a 
<listruised  I'rolcvstnnt. 

If,  at  any  step  made  l>y  the  Protestant 
throui^h  the  rcirions  of  science  mikI  learniiiir, 
he  iisks  (tod  or  man  to  tell  him  how  he  ( an 
p,(>c<'ed  any  further  without  any  fear  of  fall- 
int:  into  some  unknown  and  unsuspected 
a  >y.s8,  both  (tod  and  man  tell  him  what 
CliriBt  said  to  His  apostles  that  he  has 
t'yi's  tf>  see.  ears  to  liear.  and  an  iiitelli<i(Mice 
to  understand  :  he  is  reminded  that  it  is 
with  his  own  eyes,  and  not  his  neiirhboi's 
eyes,  he  imist  look:  that  it  is  with  his  own 
cars,  and  not  with  another  one'.s  ears  ho 
iiiiLst  hear:  and  that  it  is  with  his  (uvn  in- 
telliirence,  and  not  another's  iiitelliirenc<'.  he 
must  understand.  And  when  the  Protestant 
has  madn  nso  of  his  own  eyes  to  sec,  and 
his  own  ears  to  hear,  and  ids  own  intelli- 
gence to  understand,  he,  nevertheless  feels 
ngain  his  feet  uncertain  on  the  trembliiip 
v.aves  of  the  mysterious  and  unexplored 
rejrionsof  science  and  l(>arniiig  which  spread 
liefore  him   as  a  boundless  ocean,  all   the 


echos  of  heaven  and  earth  brim;  to  his  cars 
Ihe  .simple  but  sublime  words  of  the  Son  of 
(iod:  "If  a  son  shall  ask  bread  of  any  of 
you  that  is  a  father,  will  lie  irivc  liiiii  a 
stone?  Or  if  he  ask  a  fish,  will  he,  for  a 
tisli,  ^ive  iiim  a  ser|)rnl  '.-  Or  if  he  shall  ask 
an  eifiT,  will  he  olTerhitii  n  scorpion  'f  If  ye 
then,  beiiiff  evil,  know  how  tu  i,'ive  -rood 
>;ifls  unto  your  childreu  :  how  imieh  shall 
your  heavenly  Father  irive  liie  Holy  Spirit 
to  them  that  ask  him  ?" 

Kinboldeiied  with  this  infallible  promise  of 
the  Saviour  which  has  <  nobled.  and  almost 
divini/ed  him,  ihe  I'rotcslanI  student  c<-iised 
to  treii.ble  and  bar :  a  new  strciii^th  has  iicen 
!j;iven  to  his  feel,  a  new  power  to  his  mind. 
For  he  has  uoiic  to  his  Father  for  more  liirhl 
and  strenuth.  .Nay  I  he  has  boldly  asked, 
not  only  the  assistance  and  the  help  of  the 
Spirit  of  (iod,  iiiil  the  very  presence  of  His 
Spirit  in  his  soul  to  ixuirle  and  sireiiirllicn 
him.  The  assurance  that  theOrciit  (iod  who 
hascnated  heaven  and  earth  is  his  Father, 
his  lovini?  Father,  has  absolutely  rai.sed  him 
above  himself:  it  has  iriven  a  new.  I  dare 
say.  u  divine  iiiipiil.se  to  all  his  aspirations 
fo.'  truth  and  knowledge.  It  has  ])ut  in  his 
breast  Ihe  assurance  that,  sustained  by  the 
love,  and  the  liirht,  and  the  help  of  that 
^reat  intinite  eternal  (>od,  he  feels  him.self 
as  iis  ii  irianl  able  to  cope  with  any  obstacle. 
lie  does  not  any  more  walk,  on  his  way  to 
clernity.  as  a  worm  of  the  dust  :  a  voice 
from  iieaven  has  told  him  that  he  was  the 
child  of  (iod  !  Kternity,  and  not  lime,  then, 
becomes  the  limits  of  his  existence,  he  is  no 
more  satisfied  with  touchini;  with  his  liamls 
and  studyinj;  with  his  eyes  the  few  objects 
which  are  within  the  limited  horizon  of  his 
eyilid-vision.  He  stretches  his  jriaiit  hands 
to  the  boundless  limits  of  the  inlinitc!.  he 
boldly  raised  his  feet  and  eyes  from  Ihe  d'lsl 
of  this  earth,  to  launch  himself  into  the 
i)oundle.ss  oceans  of  the  unknown  worlds. 
He  feels  as  if  there  was  almost  'lothiiiir  be- 
yond the  reach  of  his  intelliifcnce,  nothing 
to  resist  the  power  of  his  arms,  notliiiitr  to 
stop  his  onward  proiire.ss  toward  the  infi- 
nite, so  loiiL'^as  the  infallible  words  of  Christ 
will  be  his  compa.-'S,  his  litrht,  and  his 
streiijrtli.  He  will  then  touch  the  mountains 
and  they  will  melt  and  bow  down  before 
him  to  let  his  iron  and  fiery  chariot  jiassover 
the  rocky  iiiouiitaiiis,  8,000  feci  above  the 
level  of  the  sea.  I Ic  will  boldly  ascend  to  the 
regions  where  the  liirlitninjj:  and  the  storms 
reign,  and.  there,  he  will  plunsrc  his  daring 
liauds  into  llio  roaring  clouds,  and  wrench 
the  sparkle  of  lifthlniiia;  which  will  carry  his 
message  from  one  end  lo  the  other  of  ihis 
world.  He  will  force  the  oceans  to  tremble 
and  submit,  as  humble  slaves,  before  those 
marvelous  steam-engines  which,  like  giants, 
carry  "  floating  cities  '   over  all  the  seas  in 


T 


spite  of  the  'TindH  and  the  wiivnH.     Had  the 
NpwIoiir,   the    Pninklins,    the    Kiiltniifl.    the 
MorMCH  been   Konmnims,  their  nunieii  woiild 
have  been  loMt  in  the  obscurity,  which  ih  iho  | 
natural  heritage  of  the  ahjeut  hIiivps  of  thej 
pope!).     Being  told   from  their  infancy  thai  { 
no   one  had  any  ri^ht   to  miikc  uhc  of  liiM  | 
"  private  judgment  "    inlelli(^cnce  an<l  con-' 
science  in  the  renearch  of  truth,  they  would 
have  remninod  mule  and  niniioiileMH  at  the 
feet  of  the  nuxlcrn  and  terrible  Qod  of  llonif,  I 
the  Pope.     But  they  were  I'rotestantM  !     In  i 
that  great   and  glorious  word   "Protestant"! 
is   the  Hscrct  of   the   niarvclouH  diHcovcric!* ' 
with  which  they  have  changed    the  face  of! 
the    world.      They    wee    I'roteHlant.s !    yes, 
they  had  passed  their  young  years  in  I'rot- 
entatit    scliools,    where    they    had     read    a' 
book  which   loM  them   tiiat    they  were  cre- 
ated in   the    image   of  (lod,  and    rhat  that 
great  Ood  had  sent  His  eternal  Son  Jesus,  to 
make  them  free  from  the   bondage  of  man. 
They  hail  read  in  thai   Protestant   book  (for 
the  Bible  is  the  most    Protestant  book  which 
exists  in  the  world)  that  mnn  had  not  only  a 
conscience,  but  an  intelli^rence  to  guide  him  ; 
they  had   learned   thai  that  intelligence  and 
conscience  had  no  other  master  but  Ood  ;  no 
other  guide  but  (iod  ;   no  other  light  hut  God. 
On  the  walls  of  their  Protestant  .schools  the 
Son  of  (»o<l  had  written  the  marTolous  words  : 
"  (7ome  unto  me,  I  am  the  Light,  the  Way, 
the  Life."      But  when  the  Protestant  nations 
are  marching  with   such  giant  strides  to  the 
conquest  of  the  world,    why  is  it   that   the 
Komnn  (Jalholic  nations  not  only  remain  sta- 
tionary, but   give   evidence   of  a  decadence 
which  is,   day  after  day,  more  and  more  ap- 
palling and  remediless'.'     <io  to  their  schools 
and  give  a  moment  of  attention  to  the  prin- 
ciples which  are  sown  in  the  young  intelli- 
gences of  their  unfortunate  slaves,  and  you 
will  have  the  key  to  that  sad  mystery. 

What  is  not  only  the  first,  but  the  daily  school 
lesson  taught  to  the  Roman  Catholic?  Is  it 
not  that  one  of  the  greatest  crimes  which  a 
man  can  commit  is  to  follow  his  "private 
judgment?"  which  means  that  he  has  eyes, 
but  he  cannot  see,  ears,  but  he  cannot  hear, 
and  intelligence,  but  he  cannot  make  use  of 
it  in  the  research  of  »;uth  and  light  and 
knowledge  without  danger  to  be  eternally 
damned.  His  superiors — which  means  the 
priest  and  the  pope — must  see  for  him,  hear 
for  him,  and  think  for  him.  Yes,  the  Ro- 
man Catholic  is  constantly  told  in  his  school 
that  the  most  unpardonable  and  damna- 
ble crime  is  to  make  use  of  his  own  intel- 
ligence and  follow  hii private  Judi/ment  in  the 
research  of  truth.  He  is  conllantly  re- 
minded that  roan's  own  private  judgment  is 
his  greatest  enemy.  Hence,  ail  his  intellect- 
ual and  conscientious  efforts  must  be  brought 


to  fight  down,  sileiHse,  kill  his  ■■  private 
judgment."  It  is  by  the  judgment  of  his 
superiors — the  priest,  the  bishop  and  the 
pope — that  he  must  be  guided  in  everything. 

Now,  what  is  a  man  who  cannot  make  use 
of  his  "  private  personal  judgment."  Is  he 
not  a  slave,  an  idioi,  an  ass  ?  And  what  is  a 
nation  composed  of  mci  who  d»  not  make 
use  of  their  private  personal  judgment  in  the 
re-earch  of  truth  and  happiness,  if  not  a 
nation  of  brutes,  slaves  and  contemptible 
idiots  ? 

But  as  this  will  look  like  an  exaggeration 
on  my  part,  allow  me  to  force  the  Church  of 
Rome  to  come  here  and  speak  for  herself. 
Please  pay  attention  to  what  she  has  to  say 
about  the  intellectual  faculties  of  men.  Here 
are  the  very  words  of  the  so-called  Saint 
Ignatius  Loyola,  the  founder  of  the  .lesuit 
Society. 

"As  for  holy  obedience,  this  virtue  must  be 
periect  in  every  point,  in  execution,  in  will, 
in  intellect  ;  doing  which  is  enjoined  with  all 
celerity,  spiritual  joy  and  perseverance  ;  per- 
suading ourselves  that  everything  is  just  ; 
suppressing  every  repugnant  thought  and 
judgment  of  one's  own,  in  a  certain  obedi- 
ence ;  and  let  every  one  persuade  himself 
that  he  who  lives  under  obedience,  should  be 
moved  and  directed  under  Divine  Providence, 
by  his  superior,  .iii.st  as  if  iik  wkiie  a  conpsii 
(ptrinde  aesi  rudaver  es$et)  which  allows  itself 
to  be  moved  ami  led  in  every  direction." 

Ves !  Protestants,  when  you  send  your 
child  to  school  it  is  that  he  may  more  and 
more  understand  the  dignity  of  man.  Your 
object  is  to  enlighten,  expau*!,  and  raise  his 
intelligenc!.  You  want  to  give  more  light, 
more  strength,  more  food,  more  life  to  that 
intelligence.  But  know  it  well,  not  from  my 
lips,  but  from  the  solemn  declaration  of 
Rome.  The  young  Roman  Catholic  goes  to 
school  not  only  that  liis  intelligence  may  be 
fettered,  clouded  and  paralyzed,  but  that  it 
may  be  killed.  (You  have  heard  it).  It  is 
only  when  he  will  be  like  a  corpse  before  his 
superior  that  the  young  Roman  Catholic  will 
have  attained  to  the  highest  degree  of  perfect 
manhood  !  Is  not  such  a  doctrine  absolutely 
anti-Christian  and  anti-social?  Is  it  not  dia- 
bolical ?  Would  not  mankind  become  a  Hock 
of  brute  beasts  if  the  Church  of  Rome  could 
succeed  in  her  plans  of  persuading  every  one 
of  her  hundred  of  millions  of  slaves  to  con- 
sider themselves  as  cadavers — corpses  in  the 
presence  of  their  superiors? 

Some  one  will,  perhaps,  ask  me  what  can 
be  the  object  of  the  popes  and  the  priests  of 
Rome  in  degrading  the  Roman  Catholics  in 
such  a  strange  way  that  they  turn  them  into 
moral  corpses  ?  What  can  be  the  use  of  those 
hundred  of  millions  of  corpses?  Why  not 
let  them  live  ?     The  answer  is  a  very  easy 


one:  The  grrat,  the  only  objc;!  of  the 
thought!  and  workings  of  the  piieats  ami 
the  pope,  is  to  raUo  theuiHelves  above  the 
reHt  of  the  world.  They  want  to  he  high  ! 
high  !  high  above  the  heiida  not  onlj  of  the 
oouimon  people,  but  of  the  kingH  and  emper- 
ors of  the  world.  They  want  to  be  not  only 
at  high,  but  higher  than  God.  It  is  when 
speaking  of  the  pope  that  the  Holy  Ohost 
says  :  "  He  oppoaeth  and  exalteth  himself 
above  all  that  i8  called  (lod,  or  that  ia  wor- 
shiped ;  BO  that  he,  aa  Ood,  sitteth  in  the 
temple  of  God,  shewing  himself  that  he  is 
God."— 2  Thes.,  ii.  4.  Tu  attain  their  ob- 
ject, the  priests  have  persuaded  thcirmilliuns 
and  millions  of  slaves  that  they  were  mere 
corpses ;  that  they  had  no  will,  no  conscience, 
no  intelligence  of  their  own,  just  "as  corpses 
which  allow  themselves  to  be  moved  and  led 
in  any  way,  without  any  resistance."  When 
this  has  been  once  gained,  they  have  made  a 
pyramid  of  all  those  motionless,  inert  corpsnH 
which  is  so  high,  that  though  its  feet  art  on 
the  earth,  the  top  goes  to  the  skies,  in  the 
very  abode  of  the  old  divinities  of  the  Pagan 
world,  and  putting  themselves  and  their 
popes  at  the  top  of  that  marvelous  pyramid, 
the  priests  say  to  the  rest  of  the  world  : 
"Who  among  you  are  as  high  as  we  are? 
Who  has  ever  been  raised  by  (iiod  as  a  priest 
and  a  pope?  Where  are  the  kings  and  the 
emperors  whose  thrones  are  as  elevated  as 
ours  ?  Are  we  not  at  the  very  top  of  hu- 
manity?" Ves  !  yes!  I  answer  to  the  popes 
and  the  priests  of  Rome,  you  are  high,  very 
high  indeed !  No  throne  on  earth  has  ever 
been  so  sublime,  so  exalted  as  yours.  Since 
the  days  of  the  towers  of  Babel,  the  world 
has  not  seen  such  a  huge  fabric.  Your  throne 
is  higher  than  anything  we  know.  But  it  is 
a  throne  of  corpses ! ! ! 

And  if  you  want  to  'tnow  what  other  use 
is  made  of  those  millions  and  millions  of 
corpses,  I  will  tell  it  to  you.  There  is  no 
manure  so  rich  as  dead  carcasses.  Those 
millions  of  corpses  serve  to  manure  the  gar- 
dens of  the  priests,  the  bishops  and  the 
popes,  and  make  their  cabbages  grow  !  And 
what  fine  cabbages  grow  in  the  pope's  garden  ? 

Is  it  not  a  lucky  thing  for  the  world  in 
general,  and  for  the  Roman  Catholics  in  par- 
ticular, that  though  they  are  taught  to  be- 
come like  corpses,  to  have  no  will,  no  under- 
standing, no  judgment  of  their  own,  in  the 
presence  of  their  superiors  there  are  many 
who  can  never  attain  to  that  perfection  of 
intellectual  degradation  and  death  !  Yes,  in 
spite  of  the  efforts,  in  spite  of  the  teachings 
of  their  Church,  a  few  Roman  Catholics  re- 
tain some  life,  some  will,  some  intelligence, 
some  judgment  of  their  own  which  prevents 
them  from  becoming  complete  brutes.  They 
now  and  then  refuse  to  descend  to  the  damp. 


dark  and  putrid  abode  of  the  corpses.  They 
want  to  breathe  the  fresh  and  pure  air  of  lib- 
erty  which  God  has  given  to  man.  They 
raise  their  humiliated  forehead  fmm  the 
ignominious  tomb  which  their  Church  has 
dug  for  them,  and  they  give  some  xigns  of 
life.  Hut  at  every  such  signs  of  life  given 
ly  an  individual,  or  by  a  people  in  the 
Church  of  Rome,  be  sure  tlial  you  will  see 
the  tiashing light  and  hear  the  roaring  tliun- 
ders  of  the  Vatican  directed  against  the  rebel 
wijo  dares  to  refuse  to  become  a  corfiKe  before 
his  superiors.  It  is  tor  having  shown  such 
signs  of  life  and  independence  of  mind  that 
Galileo  wiis  sent  to  gaol  and  threatened  to  be 
cruelly  tortured  on  the  racks  of  the  Inquisi- 
tion in  Italy,  three  hundred  years  ago.  It  is 
for  having  shown  those  symptoms  of  life, 
that  only  a  few  days  ago,  the  honest  Kenna, 
one  of  the  most  respected  Roman  Cntiiolics 
of  Bathurst,  N.  S.  Wales,  was  excommuni- 
cated the  day  before  his  death,  and  hud  to 
be  buried  as  a  dog  in  his  own  field,  for  hav- 
ing refused  to  take  away  his  childreu  from 
an  excellent  grammar  school  to  obey  the 
priest.  It  is  for  having  dared  to  think  for 
himself  a  few  days  before  his  death,  that  the 
amiable  and  learned  Montalambert  was  con- 
sidered as  an  outcast  by  the  pope,  who  re- 
fused him  the  honor  of  public  prayers  in 
Rome  after  his  death. 

But  that  you  may  better  understand  the 
degrading  tendencies  of  the  principles  which 
are  as  the  fundamental  stone  of  the  moral 
and  intellectual  education  of  Rome,  let  mc 
put  before  your  eyes  another  extract  of  the 
Jesuit  teachings,  which  I  take  again  from  the 
"Spiritual  Exercise,"  as  laid  down  by  their 
founder,  I^rnatius  Loyola:  "That  we  may 
in  all  things  attain  the  truth,  that  we  may 
not  err  in  anything,  we  ought  ever  to  hold  as 
a  fixed  principle  that  what  I  see  while  I  be- 
lieve to  be  black,  if  the  superior  authorities 
of  the  Church  define  it  to  be  so."  Vou  all 
know  that  it  is  the  avowed  desire  of  Rome  to 
have  public  education  in  the  hands  of  the 
Jesuits.  She  says  everywhere  that,  they  are 
the  best,  the  model  teachers.  Why  so?  Be- 
cause they  more  boldly  and  more  successfully 
than  any  other  of  her  teachers  aim  at  the 
destruction  of  the  intelligence  and  con- 
science of  their  pupils.  Rome  proclaims 
everywhere  that  the  Jesuits  are  the  most  de- 
voted, the  most  reliable  of  her  teachers,  and 
she  is  right,  for  when  a  man  has  been  trained 
a  sufficient  time  by  them,  he  most  perfectly 
becomes  a  moral  corpse.  His  superiors  can 
do  what  they  please  with  him.  When  he 
knows  that  a  thing  is  white  as  snow,  he  is 
ready  to  swear  that  it  is  black  as  ink  if  his 
superior  tells  him  so.  But  some  among  you 
may  be  tempted  to  think  that  these  degrad- 
ing principles  are  ezolusively  taught  by  the 


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JesuilH;  that  iliey  arc  not  ilie  teachlnRH  of 
the  Church,  and  tliiit  I  do  an  injiiHliue  to  t!ie 
Koninii  Catholics  when  I  givi*,  aH  a  Keiiornl 
iniquity,  what  in  tiiP  guilt  of  the  .InHuitH  only. 
LiHton  to  the  wor>la  of  that  infallihlc  I'ope 
Oregory  XVI,  in  Imh  celubraletl  Kncyclical  of 
the  16lh  of  AngUHt,  WV2.  "  If  the  holy 
church  HO  requireH,  let  U8  sacrifice  our  own 
opinions,  our  knowledge,  our  tntflliiffncf,  the 
iiplendid  dreams  of  our  imagination,  and  the 
mo^t  Buhlime  atliiinnientH  of  the  human  un- 
derstanding. "  It  Ih  when  considering  those 
anti-social  principlcHof  Rome  that  our  learned 
and  profound  thinker,  Oladslon'',  wrote,  not 
long  ago:  **  No  more  cunning  plot  wa.>«  ever 
devisod  against  tlie  freedom,  the  happiness 
and  the  virtue  of  mankind  than  RomaniHm." 
(Lettfr  to  Earl  Afjeriiffti.)  Now,  Protestants, 
do  you  begin  to  see  the  difference  of  the 
object  of  education  between  a  i'roteslant  and 
a  Iloman  Catholic  school?  Do  you  begin  to 
understand  the  truth  of  what  I  said,  at  the 
beginning  of  this  address,  that  there  is  as 
great  a  distance  between  the  word  Kducatinn 
among  you,  and  the  meaning  of  the  same 
word  in  the  Church  of  Rome,  than  between 
the  southern  and  the  northern  poles!  By 
education  ynu  ,im,  i  to  vaise  man  to  the  high- 
est sphere  of  manhood.  Pome  means  to 
lower  .1,1  below  the  most  stupid  brutes.  By 
education  you  mean  to  teach  man  that  he  is 
a  free  agent,  that  liberty  within  the  limits  of 
the  laws  of  God,  and  of  his  country,  is  agift 
secured  to  every  one  ;  you  want  to  impress 
every  man  with  th^  noble  thought  that  it  is 
better  to  die  a  free  man  than  to  live  a  slave. 
Rome  wants  to  teach  that  there  is  only  one 
man  who  is  free,  the  pope,  and  that  all  the 
rest  are  born  to  be  his  abject  slaves  in 
thought,  will  and  action. 

Now,  that  you  may  still  more  understand 
to  what  bottomless  abyss  of  human  degrada- 
tion and  moral  depravity  these  anti-Christian 
and  anti-social  principles  of  Rome  lead  her 
poor  blind  slaves — hear  what  Liguori  says  in 
his  book  "The  Nun  Sanctified:"  "The 
principal  and  most  efficacious  means  of  prac- 
ticing obedience  due  to  superiors,  and  of 
rendering  it  meritorious  before  God,  is  to 
consider  that  in  obeying  them  we  obey  God 
Himself,  and  that  by  despising  their  com- 
mands, we  despi-se  the  authority  of  our  di- 
vine Master.  When,  thus,  a  religious  re- 
ceives a  precept  from  her  prelate,  superior 
or  confessor,  she  should  immediately  execute 
it,  not  only  to  pleaae  them  but  principally  to 
please  God,  whose  will  is  made  known  to  her 
by  their  command.  In  obeying  their  com- 
mand, in  obeying  their  directions,  she  is 
more  certainly  obeying  the  will  of  God  than 
if  an  angel  came  down  from  heaven  to  mani-  i 
fest  his  will  to  her.  Bear  this  always  in ' 
your  mind,  oh  !  blessed  sister,  that  the  obe- 


dience which  yon  practice  to  your  sHperior 
is  paid  to  Gild.  If,  then,  you  receiv(>  li  cum- 
mand  from  one  wIidIum  Is  tlic  place  oftio'l,  you 
should  observe  it  with  the  same  diligence  iis 
if  it  came  from  God  Himself.  BlesMed  Kgi- 
lius  used  to  say  that  it  is  more  meriiorioii.t  to 
obey  man  for  the  love  of  (Jod  than  (lud  Him- 
self. It  may  be  added  thai  there  in  more 
certainty  of  doing  the  will  of  God  by  obedi- 
ence to  our  superior  than  by  obedience  to 
.lesiis  Christ,  should  lie  appear  in  person  and 
give  His  command.^.  8t.  Pliillip  Neri  iisetl  to 
say  that  religious  shall  be  most  certain  of 
not  having  to  render  an  account  of  the  ac- 
tions ]ierformed  through  obedience  -,  for 
these,  the  superiors  only  who  commanded 
them  shall  be  lielil  iiccoiintalile."  The  Lord 
said,  once,  to  St.  Cuthriuc  of  Sienne,  'Relig- 
ious will  not  be  obligeil  to  render  an  ao- 
count  to  me  of  what  tlicy  do  through  obedi- 
ence, for  that  i  will  demand  an  account  trom 
the  superior.  Tii  'U)clrine  is  confonniible 
to  Sacred  Scripture  Behold,  says  the  I,ord, 
as  clay  is  in  the  p  it>er's  hand,  so  are  you  in 
my  hands,  oh  '  Israel  I  (Jeremiah,  xviii.  0). 
Religious  m  be  in  (ne  han  ,>\  of  the  supe- 
riors to  'le  molded  is  t',.  y  will,  shall  the 
clay  say  to  him  tint  rushioneth  it.  What  art 
thou  making?  '' 'lo  j-oi tor  ought  to  ani«  .ver, 
*  Be  silent,  it  Is  not  your  business  to  in<|uire 
what  I  do,  but  to  obey  and  to  receive  what- 
ever  form  I  please  to  give  you.'  " 

I  ask  of  you,  American  Prott..;'>nts,  what 
will  become  of  your  fair  country  if  you  wer™ 
blind  enough  to  allow  the  Church  of  Rome  to 
teach  the  children  of  the  United  Stites? 
What  kind  of  men  and  women  can  come  out 
of  such  schools?  What  fu'ure  of  fininie, 
degradation  au<l  slavery  you  prepare  for 
your  country,  if  Ron.e  does  succeed  in  I'or- 
cinjj  you  to  support  pucli  schools.  Wh.it  kind 
of  women  would  come  out  from  the  schools 
of  nuns  who  would  leach  them  that  the  high- 
est pitch  of  perfection  in  a  wouian  is  when 
she  obeys  her  superior,  the  priest,  in  f very- 
thing  he  eommandt  her  1  that  your  daughter 
will  never  be  called  to  give  an  account  to  God 
for  the  actions  she  will  have  done  to  please 
and  obey  her  superior'  the  priest,  the  bishop 
or  the  pope?  That  the  affairs  of  her  con- 
science will  be  arranged  between  God  and 
that  superior,  and  that  she  will  never  be 
asked  why  she  had  done  tliis  or  that,  when 
it  will  be  to  gratify  the  pleasures  of  the  su- 
perior, and  obey  his  command,  that  she  has 
dime  it.  Again,  what  kind  of  men  and  citi- 
zens will  come  out  from  the  schools  of  those 
Jesuits  who  believe  and  teach  that  a  man  has 
attained  the  perfection  of  manhood  only  when 
he  is  a  perfect  spiritual  corpse  before  his 
superior;  when  he  obeys  the  priest  with  the 
perfection  of  a  cadaver,  that  has  neither  life 
nor  will  in  itself. 


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But  you  will  be  tempted  to  think  that  this 
perfect  blind  obedience  to  the  priest,  which 
is  the  corner  stone  of  the  R.onian  Catholic 
education,  is  required  only  in  spiritual  mat- 
ters ;  yes  !  but  you  must  not  forget  that,  in 
the  Church  of  lloiue  every  action  of  the  pri- 
vate or  public  life  belongs  to  the  spiritual 
sphere  which  the  superior  only  mujt  rule. 
For  instance,  a  Roman  Catholic  has  not  the 
right  to  select  the  teacher  of  his  boy,  nor  the 
school  where  he  will  send  him  ;  he  must  con- 
sult his  priest,  and  if  he  dares  to  act  in  a 
diflferent  way  from  what  his  priest  has  told 
him  in  the  selection  of  that  teacher  or  that 
school,  he  is  excommunicated  and  dammed, 
aM  Mr.  Kenna  has  been  lately  at  Bathurst. 
If  he  votes  according  to  his  own  private 
judgment  for  Mr  Johns  instead  of  Mr. 
Thompson,  the  selected  member  of  the  bishop 
and  the  priest,  he  is  dammed  and  considered 
as  a  rebel  against  his  Holy  Church,  out  of 
which  there  is  no  salvation. 

The  Church  of  Home's  only  object  in  giv- 
ing what  she  calls  education  is  to  teach  her 
slaves  that  they  must  obey  their  superiors  in 
everything,  as  God  Himself.  All  the  rest  of 
her  teaching  is  only  a  mask  to  conceal  her 
plans.  History  is  never  taught  in  her 
schools ;  what  she  calls  history  is  a  most 
shameful  string  of  falsehoods.  Of  course 
she  does  not  dare  to  say  a  word  of  truth 
about  her  past  struggles  against  the  great 
principles  of  light  and  liberty,  when  she 
covered  the  whole  of  Europe  with  tears, 
blood  and  ruins.  Writing,  reading,  arithme- 
tic, geography  and  grammar  are  taught  to 
a  certain  degree  in  her  schools,  but  all  these 
teachings  are  nothing  else  but  covered  roads 
through  which  the  priest  wants  to  reach  the 
citadel  of  the  heart  and  intelligence  of  his 
poor  victim,  and  take  an  absolute  possession 
of  them.  Those  things  are  taught  every  day 
only  to  have  a  daily  opportunity  to  persuade 
the  pupil  that  he  must  never  make  any  use 
of  his  private  judgment  in  anything,  and  that 
he  must  submit  his  intelligence,  his  con- 
science, his  will,  to  the  intelligence,  conscience 
and  will  of  his  superior,  if  he  wants  tc  save 
himself  from  the  eterqal  fire  of  hell.  He  is 
constantly  told  what  I  have  been  told  a  thou- 
sand times  myself,  when  studying  in  the 
college  of  Nicholet :  That,  those  who  obey 
their  superiors  in  everything,  will  not  be 
called  to  give  an  account  of  their  actions  to 
their  Supreme  Judge,  even  if  those  actions 
were  bad  in  themselves —for,  as  Liguori  told 
you,  a  moment  ago  :  "  Whosoever  obeys  his 
superior,  for  the  love  of  God,  obeys  God 
Himself,  and  that  there  are  more  merits  to 
obey  one's  own  superior  than  God  Himself." 

The  Church  of  Rome  shows  her  great  wis- 
dom in  enforcing  that  dogma  of  the  entire 
and  blind  subjection  of  the  will  and  intelli- 


gence of  the  inferior  to  the  superior.  For 
the  very  moment  thai  a  Roman  Catholic  thinks 
that  it  is  his  right  and  sacred  duty  to  follow 
the  dictates  of  his  own  conscience  and  intel- 
ligence, he  is  lost  to  the  Church  of  Rome.  It 
iij  only  when  a  man  has  entirely  silenced,  and 
absolutely  killed  his  intelligence — it  is  only 
when  he  has  become  a  perfect  ir.oral  corpse — 
that  he  can  believe  that  his  priest,  even  his 
drunken  priest,  has  the  power  to  change  a 
wafer,  or  any  other  piece  of  bread  into  the 
great  God,  for  whom  and  by  whom  every- 
thing has  been  created.  It  is  only  when  the 
intelligence  of  man  has  become  a  dead  car- 
cass that  he  can  believe  that  a  miserable  sin- 
ner has  the  supreme  power  to  force  the  Son 
of  God  to  come,  in  His  divine  and  human 
person,  into  his  vest  or  pants'  pockets  to  fol- 
low him  everywhere  he  wants  to  go,  even  to 
the  bar  of  the  low  tavern,  that  He  may  be- 
come his  companion  of  debauch  and  drunk- 
enness. Do  you  see,  now,  why  the  Church 
of  Rome  cannot  let  her  poor  young  slaves  go 
to  your  schools  ?  In  your  schools,  the  first 
thing  you  inculcate  to  the  pupil  is  that  his 
intelligence  is  the  great  gift  of  God,  by  which 
man  is  distinguii^hed  from  the  brute  ;  that  he 
must  enlighten,  form,  feed,  cultivate  his  in- 
telligence, which  is  to  him  what  the  helm  is 
to  the  ship,  Christ,  with  His  holy  Word  being 
the  pilot.  You  see,  now,  why  the  Church  of 
of  Rome  abhors  your  schools.  It  is  because 
you  want  to  make  mm,  and  she  wants  to 
make  brutes  You  want  to  raise  men  to  the 
highest  sphere  to  which  his  intelligence  can 
allow  him  to  reach ;  she  wants  to  keep  him 
in  the  dust,  at  the  feet  of  the  priests;  you 
want  to  form  free  citizens,  she  wants  to  form 
adject  and  obedient  slaves  of  the  priests ; 
you  teach  man  to  keep  his  sacred  promises 
and  stand  by  his  oath,  she  teaches  him  that 
the  Pope  has  the  right  to  dissolve  the  most 
sacred  promises,  and  to  annul  all  his  oaths, 
even  the  oate  of  allegiance  to  his  country. 
You  tell  your  pupils  that  so  long  a?  they  will 
keep  themselves  within  the  limits  of  the 
laws  of  their  country  they  are  responsi- 
ble only  to  God  for  their  consciences.  They 
tell  their  pupils  that  it  is  not  to  God,  but  to 
the  priest  he  must  go  to  give  an  account  of 
his  conscience.  You  teach  your  pupils  that 
the  laws  of  God  only  bind  the  conscience  of 
man  ;  they  tell  them  that  it  is  the  laws  of  the 
Church,  which  means  the  ipxe  dixit  of  the 
pope  which  binds  their  consciences.  You 
teach  the  student  that  every  man  has  the 
right  to  choose  his  religion  according  to  his 
conscience.  She  positively  says  that  no  man 
has  the  right  to  choose  his  religion  according 
to  his  conscience.  It  is  evident  that  the 
Church  of  Rome  would  be  dead  to-morrow 
if  to-day  she  would  allow  her  children  to 
attend  schools  where  they  would  learn   to 


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follow  the  dictates  of  their  consoience,  and 
listen  to  the  voiee  of  their  intelligence.  But 
she  is  too  shrewd  to  avow  before  the  world 
the  real  reasons  why  she  wants,  at  any  cost, 
to  prevent  her  children  from  attending  your 
schools.  And  it  is  here  she  shows  her  pro- 
found and  diabolical  cunning.  Thougli  she 
is  the  most  deadly  enemy  of  liberty  of  con- 
science, though  she  has,  time  after  time, 
anathematized  liberty  of  conscience  as  one  of 
Satan'H  schemes,  she  suddenly  steps  on,  as 
the  grent  friend  and  apostle  of  liberty  of  con- 
science, and  under  that  new  mask  she  ap- 
proache:)  your  legislators  with  great  airs  of 
dignity  and  says :  "  We  are  happy  to  live  in 
a  country  where  liberty  of  conscience  is 
secured  to  every  citizen.  It  is  in  its  sacred 
name  that  we  respectfully  approach  your 
honorable  legislature  to  aslc:  First,  to  be 
exempted  from  sending  our  children  to  the 
Government  schools.  Second,  to  have  ibe 
money  we  want  from  the  public  treasury  in 
order  to  support  our  own  schooU.  For  two 
reasons:  First,  you  read  the  Bible  in  your 
schools,  and  it  is  against  our  con*icieuce  to 
let  our  children  read  your  Bible.  Second, 
you  have  some  prayers  at  the  beginning  and 
some  i-eligious  hymns  sung  at  the  end  of  the 
hours  of  school,  and  it  is  against  our  con- 
science to  allow  the  children  of  the  Church 
of  R  me  to  join  you  in  tho.se  prayers  and 
hymns."  The  legislators,  who  for  the  groater 
part,  are  too  honorable  men  to  suspect  the 
fraud,  are  won  by  the  air  of  candor  and 
honesty  of  the  Roman  Catholic  petition- 
ers. Considering  the  great  benefit  which 
will  come  to  the  country  if  all  the  children 
are  taught  in  the  same  school,  they  are  soon 
ready  to  make  any  sacrifice  in  order  to  have 
the  Roman  Catholic  and  the  Protestant  chil- 
dren under  the  same  roof,  to  receive  the 
same  light  and  the  same  moral  food  and  same 
instruction.  As  true  patriots,  the  legislators 
understand  that  if  they  wish  their  beloved 
country  to  be  strong  and  happy,  the  first 
thing  they  must  do  is  to  make  the  young 
generation  one  in  mind,  in  heart.  If  the 
Protestant  and  Roman  Catholic  children  are 
taught  in  the  same  school,  they  will  know 
each  other  and  love  each  other  when  young, 
and  those  sacred  ties  of  friendship  which 
will  bind  them  in  the  spring  of  life,  will  be 
strengthened  when  their  reason  will  be  ma- 
tured and  enlightened  by  a  good  education 
under  the  same  respected  and  v'orthy  teach- 
ers. As  Christian  men,  the  legislators  would 
perhaps  like  to  keep  the  Bible,  and  have 
short  prayers  in  the  schools  ;  but  as  patriots, 
they  feel  that  those  things,  though  good  and 
sacred,  are  an  unsurmountable  barrier  to  the 
Roman  Catholic.  The  delicate  conscience  of 
the  bishops  and  priests  cannot  allow  such 
things  in  the  school  attended  by  their  lambs  ! 


Through  respect  for  the  sacred  rights  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  conscience,  the  legislators  in 
many  places  throw  the  Bible  overboard,  and 
they  say  to  God  :  '•  Please  get  out  from  our 
schools,  and  do  excuse  us  if  we  order  our 
school  teachers  to  ignore  your  existence!" 
They  say  to  .lesus  Christ :  "We  have  not 
forgotten  your  sublime  and  touching  words, 
'  SuflFer  little  children  to  couie  unto  me.'  No 
doubt  you  would  like  to  press  «ur  dear  little 
ones  on  your  loving  heart,  and  bless  them  for 
a  moment  in  the  schools  ;  but  we  cannot  nllow 
them  to  go  so  near  you  in  the  school,  we  can- 
not even  allow  them  to  speak  to  you  a  single 
word  there.  Please  be  not  oflFended  if  we 
turn  you  out  from  those  very  schools  where 
you  were  so  welcome  formerly.  We  are 
(orced  to  that  sad  extrennty  through  the  re- 
spect we  owe  to  the  tender  consciences  of  our 
fellow-citizens  of  the  Church  of  Rome.  You 
know  that  they  cannot  allow  their  children 
to  speak  to  you  together  with  ours."  But 
when  those  awful,  not  to  say  sacrilegious 
sacrifices,  have  been  made  by  the  Protestant 
legislators  to  appease  the  implacable  god  of 
Rome — when,  through  respect  for  the  scru- 
ples of  the  bishops  and  priests  of  Rome,  the 
great  God  of  heaven,  with  His  Son  .Jesus 
Christ,  have  been  unceremoniously  turned 
out  from  the  schools — when  the  Word  of  God 
has  been  prohibited,  and  that  the  Bible  is 
thrown  overboard,  is  the  Moloch  god  ap- 
peased? will  the  Roman  Catholic  bishop  and 
priests  tell  their  children  that  they  may 
unite  with  yours  to  go  and  receive  education 
from  the  same  teachers?  No!  But  assuming, 
then,  a  sublime  air  of  indignation,  they  turn 
against  you  as  mad  doi^s ;  they  call  your 
schools  Oodlex.t  schools .'  good  only  to  form 
tliieves,  infidels  and  atheists  ! 

Do  you  sec  now  that  all  those  dignified 
scruples  of  conscience  about  reading  the 
Bible,  praying  with  you,  etc.,  were  only  •• 
mask  to  deceive  you,  and  make  you  fall  into 
a  snare  ?  Do  viu  not  perceive  now  that  they 
did  not  care  a  straw  for  the  Bible  and  the 
prayers  in  the  schools  ?  but  they  wanted  your 
legislators  to  compromise  themselves  before 
the  Christian  world,  loose  their  moral  strength 
in  the  eyes  of  a  great  part  of  the  nation, 
divide  your  ranks, your  means,  your  strength, 
and  beat  you  on  that  great  question  of  edu- 
cation. They  will  take  such  airs  of  martyrs 
when  you  will  try  to  force  their  children  to 
your  schools  that  many  honest  and  unsus- 
pecting Protestants  will  be  completely  de- 
ceived by  them.  At  first  they  could  not,  they 
said,  trust  the  children  to  your  hands,  be- 
cause you  read  the  Word  of  God,  you  prayed 
and  blessed  God  in  the  school.  But  now 
that  the  Bible  and  God  are  turned  out  from 
the  schools,  they  baptize  them  by  the  most 
ignominious  names   which   can   be   given — 


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(hey  call  them  "Godless  schools!"  Have 
you  ever  seen  a  more  profoundly  ignomin- 
ious and  sacrilegions  trick  !  Will  not  your 
legislators  open  their  eyes  to  that  strange  act 
of  deception,  of  which  they  are  the  victims  ? 
Will  they  not  come  out  quickly  from  the 
trap  laid  before  them  by  the  bishops  and  the 
priests  of  Rome  ?  Yes  I  Let  us  hope  that 
your  patriots  and  Christian  legislators  will 
soon  understand  that  they  owe  a  reparation 
to  God  and  to  their  country  ;  wHh  unanimous 
voice  they  will  ask  pardon  from  God  for  hav- 
ing expelled  Him  from  the  very  place  where 
He  has  most  right  to  reign  supremely — the 
school. 

For  what  is  a  school  without  God  in  its 
midst  to  sit  as  a  father,  and  to  form  the 
young  hearts  and  evoke  the  young  intellect. 
What  is  a  boy  ?  what  is  a  girl  ?  what  ii  a 
woman  or  a  man  without  God?  what  is  a 
family,  what  is  a  people  without  God  ?  It  is 
a  monstrosity,  it  is  a  body  without  life, 
it  is  a  world  without  light,  it  is  a  cis- 
tern without  water.  Let  us  hope  that, 
before  long,  your  patriotic  and  Christian 
legislators  will  remember  that  the  Bible 
is  the  foundation  of  the  greatness  of  Protest- 
ant nations.  Do  not  forget  it,  Protestants. 
It  is  to  the  Bible  the  United  States  owes  their 
liberty,  power,  prestige  and  strength.  It  is 
the  Bible  that  has  ennobled  the  hearts  of  your 
heroes,  improved  the  minds  of  your  poets 
and  orators,  and  strengthened  the  arms  of 
your  warriors  ;  yes  !  it  is  because  your  sol- 
diers have  brought  with  them,  everywhere, 
the  Bible,  pressed  on  their  hearts,  that  they 
have  conquered  the  enemies  of  liberty.  So 
long  as  the  United  States  will  be  true  to  the 
Bible,  their  glorious  banners  will  flash  re- 
spected and  feared  all  over  the  seas,  and  over 
all  the  continents  of  the  world.  Let  the 
disciples  of  the  Gospel,  the  children  of  God, 
and  the  redeemed  of  Christ  all  over  the  fair 
and  noble  country  you  inhabit  hasten  to 
request  their  legislators  to  invite  the  Savior 
of  the  world  to  come  back  and  bless  their 
dear  children  in  the  school.  For  it  is  not 
only  in  your  homes  and  your  churches  that 
Jesus  tells  70U  "Suffer  little  children  to 
come  unto  uie."  It  is  particularly  in  the 
school.  Oh !  give  two  or  three  minutes  to 
those  dear  little  ones,  that  they  may  press 
themselves  on  His  bosom,  bless  Him  for  hav- 
ing saved  them  on  the  cross,  and  proclaim 
His  mercies  by  singing  one  of  those  hymns 
which  they  like  so  much.  By  this  noble  act 
of  national  reparation,  you  will  take  away 
f^om  the  hands  of  the  priests  the  only  weapon 
with  which  they  can  hurt  you ;  you  will  de- 
stroy the  only  argument  they  use  with  a  true 
force  against  your  schools  when  they  call 
them  godless  schools.  Do  not  fear  any  more 
the  priests  and  the  prelates  of  Rome.     Do 


not  yield  any  more  and  give  up  your  privilege 
to  please  them  and  reconcile  them  to  your 
schools.  You  will  never  be  able  to  reconcile 
them  to  your  schools — for  there  is  light  in  your 
schools,  and  they  want  the  darkness.  There  is 
freedom  and  liberty  in  your  schools;  they  want 
slavery  1  There  is  life  in  your  schools — and 
it  is  only  on  dead  corpses  that  their  church 
can  have  a  chance  to  live  a  few  years  more. 
You  see,  by  a  sad  experience,  that  their 
scruples  of  conscience  against  the  Bible  and 
the  prayer  of  the  school,  are  mere  hypoc- 
risy just  thrown  into  the  eyes  of  the  public. 
Do  not  say  with  some  honest  but  deluded- 
Protestants  :  Is  it  not  enough  that  that  child 
should  learn  his  religion  at  home?  No, 
it  is  not  enough  ;  for  it  is  in  our  nature 
that  we  want  two  witnesses  to  believe  a 
thing.  What  comes  to  our  mind  only  through 
one  witness  remains  uncertain ;  but  let  two 
good  witnesses  confirm  a  fact,  and  then  we 
accept  it.  Your  child  wants  two  witnesses 
to  believe  the  necessity  of  the  sacredness  of 
religion.  His  Christian  home  is  surely  a 
good  vfitness  to  your  child,  but  it  is  not 
enough ;  what  he  has  heard  from  you  must 
be  confirmed  by  his  school  teacher.  Without 
this  second  witness,  nine  times  out  of  ten 
your  children  will  be  skeptics  and  infidels. 
Besides  that,  the  very  idea  of  God  brings 
with  it  the  obligation  to  bless,  love  and  adore 
Him  everywhere.  The  moment  you  take 
your  child  to  a  place  where  not  only  he  can- 
not love,  bless  and  adore  God,  but  where  the 
adoration  and  the  praise  of  God  are-  for- 
bidden, you  entirely  destroy  the  idea  of  God 
from  the  mind  and  the  heart  of  your  child. 
You  make  him  believe  that  what  you  have 
told  him  when  at  home,  of  God,  is  only  a 
fable,  to  amuse  and  deceive  him.  Do  you  see 
that  noble  ship  in  the  midst  of  that  splendid 
harbor,  how  she  is  tossed  by  the  foaming 
waves,  how  she  is  beaten  by  the  furious 
winds  ?  What  does  prevent  that  ship  from 
flying  before  the  storm,  and  running  ashore, 
a  miserable  wreck  ?  What  does  prevent  her 
from  being  dashed  on  that  rock  ?  The  an- 
chor,  yes,  the  anchor  is  her  safety.  But  let 
a  single  link  of  the  chain  that  binds  the  ship 
to  her  anchor  break,  will  she  not  soon  be 
dashed  on  the  rock,  and  broken  to  pieces, 
and  sink  to  the  bottom  of  the  sea  ?  It  is  so 
with  your  child !  So  long  as  his  intelligence 
and  his  heart  is  united  to  God  by  the  anchor 
of  faith,  he  will  nobly  stand  against  the  furi- 
ous waves,  he  will  nobly  fight  his  battles,  but 
let  the  school  teacher  be  silent  about  God, 
and  here  is  a  broken  link,  and  the  child  will 
be  a  wreck.  Do  not  fear  the  priest,  but  fear 
God !  Do  not  try  any  more  to  please  the 
priests,  but  do  all  in  your  power  to  please 
your  great  and  merciful  God,  not  only  in 
your  homes,  but  also  in  your  schools,  and 


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those  schools  will  become  more  than  ever  a 
focus  of  light,  an  inexhaustible  source  of  in- 
tellectual and  moral  strength— more  than 
ever  your  children  will  learn  in  the  school 
to  be  your  honor,  and  your  glory  and  your 
joy.  They  will  learn  that  they  are  not  igno- 
ble  worms  of  the  dlist,  whose  existence  will 
end  in  the  tomb,  but  that  they  are  immortal 
as  God,  whose  beloved  children  they  are. 
They  will  learn  how  to  serve  their  God  and 


love  their  country.  Be  not  ashamed,  but  be 
proud  to  send  your  children  to  schools  where 
they  will  learn  how  to  be  good  Christians 
and  good  citizens.  When  you  will  have 
finished  your  pilgrimage,  they  will  be  your 
worthy  successors,  and  the  God  whom  they 
will  have  learned  to  fear,  serve  and  love  in 
the  school  will  help  them  to  make  your  grand 
Republic  great,  happy  and  free. 


A  ROMISH  BISHOP'S  TESTIMONY. 


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The  Kankakee  Times  publishes  the  following  communication  from  a 
member  of  the  Illinois  Bar.  Though  perhaps  containing  nothing  new  nor 
strange  to  those  who  have  studied  the  matter,  the  statement  made  may 
convince  such  Protestants  as  imagine  the  Church  of  Rome  to  be  a  harm- 
less institution,  of  their  great  error.  The  principles  of  the  Papal  hie- 
rarchy remain  unchanged.  The  wearer  of  the  Tiara  would  as  readily 
dispose,  for  simple  heres}',  any  temporal  ruler  of  to-day,  as  his  predecessor, 
six  centuries  ago,  deposed  and  deprived  of  his  estates.  Count  Raymond, 
of  Toulouse,  for  a  like  crime.  Religious  liberty  is  both  hated  and  dreaded 
by  a  church  which  claims  the  right  of  enforcing  its  spiritual  decrees  by 
the  assistance  of  the  secular  arm  : 

In  one  of  your  past  issues,  you  told  your  readers  that  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Chiniqu}'  had  gained  the  long  and  formidable  suit  instituted  b}'  the  Ro- 
man Catholic  Bishop  to  dispossess  him  and  his  people  of  their  church 
property.  But  30U  have  not  given  any  particulars  about  the  startling 
revelations  the  Bishop  had  to  make  before  the  Court,  in  reference  to  the 
still  existing  laws  of  the  Church  of  Rome,  against  those  whom  they  call 
heretics.  Nothing,  however,  is  more  important  for  every  one  than  to  know 
precisely'  what  those  laws  are. 

As  I  was  present  when  the  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  Foley,  of  Chicago, 
was  ordered  to  read,  in  Latin,  and  translate  into  English,  those  laws,  I 
have  kept  a  correct  copy  of  them,  and  I  send  it  to  you  with  a  request 
to  publish  it. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Chiniquy  presented  the  works  of  St.  Thomas  and  St. 
Liguori  to  the  Bishop,  requesting  him  to  say,  under  oath,  if  those  works 
were  or  were  not  among  the  highest  theological  authorities  in  the  Church 
of  Rome,  all  over  the  world.  After  long  and  serious  opposition  on  the 
part  of  the  Bishop  to  answer,  the  Court  having  said  he  (the  Bishop)  was 
bound  to  answer,  the  Bishop  confessed  that  those  works  were  looked 
upon  as  among  the  highest  authorities,  and  that  they  are  taught  and 
learned  in  all  the  colleges  and  universities  of  the  Church  of  Rome  as 
standard  works. 

Then  the  Bishop  was  requested  to  read,  in  Latin,  and  translate  into 
English,  the  following  laws  and  fundamental  principles  of  action  against 
the  heretics,  as  explained  by  Sts.  Thomas  and  Liguori : 

1.  "An  excommunicated  man  is  deprived  of  all  civil  communication 
with  the  faithful,  in  such  a  wa}',  that  if  he  is  not  tolerated,  they  can  have 
no  communication  with  him,  as  it  is  in  the  following  verse  :  '  It  is  for- 
bidden to  kiss  him,  pray  with  him,  salute  him,  to  eat  or  do  any  business 
with  him.'"— St.  Liguori,  Vol.  9,  page  162. 

2.  "Though  heretics  must  not  be  tolerated  because  they  deserved  it, 
we  must  bear  them  till,  by  a  second  admonition,  they  may  be  brought 


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back  to  the  faith  of  the  Church.  But  those  who,  after  a  second  admoni- 
tion, remain  obstinate  in  their  errors,  must  not  only  be  excommunicated^ 
but  they  must  be  delivered  to  the  secular  power  to  be  exterminated." 

3.  *'  Though  the  heretics  who  repent  must  always  be  accepted  to  pen- 
ance, as  often  as  they  have  fallen,  they  must  not,  in  consequence  of  that^ 

always  be  permitted  to  enjoy  the  benefits  of  this  life When 

the}'  fall  again,  they  are  permitted  to  repent, but  the  sen- 
tence of  death  must  not  be  removed." — St.  Thomas,  Vol.  4,  page  91. 

4.  "  When  a  man  is  excommunicated  for  his  apostac}-,  it  follows  from 
that  very  fact,  that  all  those  who  are  his  subjects  are  released  from  the 
oath  of  allegiance  by  which  they  are  bound  to  obey  him." — St.  Thomas^ 
Vol.  4,  page  94. 

The  next  document  of  the  Church  of  Rome  brought  before  the  (yourt 
was  the  act  of  the  Council  of  Lateran,  A.  D.  1215  : 

"  We  excommunicate  and  anathematize  every  heresy  that  exalts  itself 
against  the  holy,  orthodox  and  Catholic  faith,  condemning  all  heretics  by 
whatever  name  they  may  be  known — for  though  their  faces  differ,  they 
are  tied  together  by  their  tails.  Such  as  are  condemned  are  to  be  deliv- 
ered over  to  the  existing  secular  powers,  to  receive  due  punishment.  If 
laymen,  their  goods  must  be  contiscated.  If  priests,  the}'  shall  be  first 
degraded  from  their  respective  orders,  and  their  property  applied  to  the 
use  of  the  Church  in  which  they  have  officiated.  Secular  powers  of 
all  ranks  and  degrees  are  to  be  warned,  induced  and,  if  necessary,  com- 
pelled by  ecclesiastical  censure,  to  swear  that  they  will  exert  themselves 
ta  the  utmost  in  the  defense  of  the  faith,  and  extirpate  all  heretics  de- 
nounced by  the  Church,  who  shall  be  found  in  their  territories.  And 
whenever  any  person  shall  assume  government,  whether  it  be  spiritual  or 
temporal,  he  shall  be  bound  to  abide  by  this  decree. 

"  If  any  temporal  lord,  after  having  been  admonished  and  recjuired  by 
the  Church,  shall  neglect  to  clear  his  territory  of  heretical  depravity,  the 
Metropolitan  and  the  Bishops  of  the  province  shall  unite  in  excommuni- 
cating him.  Should  he  remain  contumacious  a  whole  year,  the  -fact  shall 
be  signified  to  the  Supreme  Pontiff',  who  will  declare  his  vassals  released 
from  their  allegiance  from  that  time,  and  will  bestow  his  territory  on 
Catholics,  to  be  occupied  by  them,  on  the  condition  of  exterminating  the 
heretics  and  preserving  the  said  territory  in  the  faith. 

"  Catholics  who  shall  assume  the  cross  for  the  fxUrmlnutlov  of  heretics- 
shall  enjoy  the  same  indulgences  and  be  protected  by  the  same  privileges 
as  are  granted  to  those  wiio  go  totbe  help  of  the  Holy  Land.  We  decree, 
further,  thai;  all  who  may  have  dealings  with  heretics,  and  especially  such 
as  receive,  defend  or  encourage  them,  shall  be  excommunicated.  He 
shall  not  be  eligible  to  any  public  office.  He  shall  not  be  admitted  as  a 
witness.  He  shall  neither  have  the  power  to  beciueath  his  property'  by 
will,  nor  to  succeed  to  any  inheritance.  He  shall  not  being  any  action, 
against  any  person,  but  any  one  can  luring  action  against  him.  Should 
he  be  a  judge,  his  decision  shall  have  no  force,  nor  shall  any  cause  be 
brought  before  him.  Should  he  be  an  advocate,  he  shall  not  be  allowed 
to  plead.  Should  he  be  a  lawyer,  no  instrument  made  by  him  shall  be 
held  valid,  but  shall  be  condemned  with  their  author." 

The  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  swore  that  these  laws  had  never  been 
repealed,  and,  of  course,  that  they  were  still  the  laws  of  his  Church.     He 


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Ko^  t^  swpar  that  every  vear,  he  was  bound,  under  pain  of  eternal  dam- 
had  to  swear  tiiat,  e\er)  y«»')  '  ,     '        ,  .    j  ^    Brevarium  (his 

e  te^  t  the  ProteLnts  to  know  precisely  what  the  ^f'"?' .f^'^"^ 
any  doubt.  Attorney. 


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